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Dates or Sequential Designation:

Oct. 1963-

Numbering Peculiarities:

Some annual summaries issued in revised editions.

Numbering Peculiarities:

Each annual summary cumulates previous issues for a period of prior years, i.e., annual summaries for <1976>-197 cumulate from 1958.

Inventories decreased $950 million or 0.6 percent to
$147,109 million after seasonal adjustment. This is the
fifth consecutive month that inventories declined and
this decline was slightly larger than the $892 million
decline in June. New orders increased $2,887 million
or 13.6 percent to $83,124 million and shipments in-
eased $1,894 million or 2.3 percent to $82,634 mil-
lian, Since new orders exceeded shipments the unfilled
~ers increased $492 million or 0.4 percent. The
m$reitoes to shipments ratio declined from 1.83 to
1.Si July.

The seasonally adjusted shipments and new orders
for June have been revised upward $377 million from
the figures appearing in the advance report issued
August 21. These revisions result from a calculation of
new seasonal factors for the automotive industry and
revised historical data are shown on pages 7 and 8 of
this report.

reported in the primary metals industries ($323 mil-
lion), fabricated metal products ($323 million), and
the nonelectrical machinery industries ($274 million).
Among the supplementary series household durables
increased $265 million and the capital goods industries
increased $350 million with the nondefense industries

increasing $427 million and
decreasing $77 million.

the defense

SHIPMENTS

industries

The figures on the durable goods industries in this
report supersede those issued earlier in the advance
report on durable goods. The present report is based on
more complete reporting, but the estimates are also
considered preliminary. Final figures will appear as
historical data in the report to be published for next

month.

The advance

report

on durable

goods for

August is scheduled for release on September 22, 1975
and the full report is scheduled for release on October
1, 1975.

Shipments of durable goods increased $704 million
or 1.7 percent to $41,162 million. This increase was
led by primary metals industries ($297 million), and
fabricated metal products ($264 million). Shipments of

This report contains data

on an unadjusted and

seasonally adjusted basis. However, the data are not
adjusted for price changes. For an explanation of terms
used in this report see appendix following table 5.

15 CRRENT

INDUS

;TRIAL REPORTS

Shipments,
and Orders

I

OF MANUFACTURERS'

(Millions

of dollars)

Industry

group

All manufacturing
tries:

Total..
Total,

excluding

indus-

trans-

portation

Durable g

Stone, c

Primary

goods industries,

total.

:lay, and glass products.

metals,

t

Blast furnaces,
Nonferrous meta

All other primary

Fabricated

Metal

Machinery,

Engines

otal........
steel mills.
lis...........

metals....

metal products

cans, barrels,

except

electrical,

and turbines........

Farm machinery and equipment.

Construction,

mining,

and

material handling equipment.

)Setalworking

machinery......

General industrial

Electrical ma
Electrical
distribute
industrial
Household a

machinery

chinery, total..
transmission and
on equipment and
Sapparatus.......
ppliances........

Without seasonal Without seasonal
Seasonally adjusted adjustment Seasonally adjusted adjustment
adjustment' adjustment
Industry group -,.
July June May July June y July June May July June July
1975. 1974 Jun9752" ol
1975 9775r 175r 1975 1975r 1974 1975 1975r 1975 1975 1975 1974

Defense products Based on separate reports on defense work filed by large defense
communications, aircraft and aircraft parts, and shipbuilding. The data are comp
Shipments of Defense-Oriented Industries, for the specified industries.

Table 4.--VALUE OF MANUFACTURERS' INVENTORIES, BY STAGE OF FABRICATION, BY INDUSTRY GROUP
(Millions of dollars)

Without seasonal Without seasonal
Seasonally adjusted ajsmnSeasonally adjusted
adjustment adjustment
Industry group
July June May July June July Julyp June May July June July
1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1974 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975r 1974

The seasonally adjusted automotive data for both shipments and new orders are being revised for all months since
January 1972. The higher level totals (Transportation, Durable goods industries, and All manufacturing) are also
revised by the same amounts. These revisions resulted from an updating of the seasonal factors for the automotive
industry to reflect all currently available information. The revisions were made because the revised seasonal factors
are considerably different from those previously used.

An adjustment of the monthly survey to the benchmark levels of the 1973 Annual Survey of Manufactures and
1972 Census of Manufactures is now underway. When this review is completed later this year, revised seasonally
adjusted data will be issued for all industries including data for earlier years.

TABLE A.--MANUFACTURERS

SHIPMENTS AND ORDERS

, BY INDUSTRY GROUPS AND MONTHS

Seasonally
(Millions o

Adjusted
f dollars)

YEAR JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

SHIPMENTS

ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, TOTAL

59,023
67,753
76,501
79,234

DURABLE

59,177
68,853
77,314
79,214

GOODS INDUSTRIES

31,517
37,125
40,106
40,247

31,815
37,730
40,409
39,992

TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT,

59,932
69,630
78,627
77,509

TOTAL

32,215
37,975
41,065
39,124

TOTAL

60,689
69,820
79,251
80,333

32,806
38,003
41,433
40,851

60,980
70,574
81,346
79,423

32,949
38,574
42,767
40,183

61,031
70,982
81,519
80.740

32,655
38,623
43,138
40,458

61,024
71,428
83,728
(NA)

32,780
38,959
43,831
(NA)

62,657
72,015
85,481
(NA)

33,658
38,627
44,546
(NA)

63,290
71,693
85,749
(NA)

34,036
38,795
44,828
(NA)

64,326
73,988
87,402
(NA)

35,177
40,286
45,857
(NA)

65,950
75,742
85,675

35,827
40,619
44,275

66,602
74,835
79,737
(NA)

36,112
39,683
40,799

7,911
9,611
8,766
8,045

1975..

8.031

8,017

8,198
9,330
10,136
(NA)

MOTOR VEHICLES AND PARTS

1975..

NEW ORDERS

ALL MANUFACTURING

INDUSTRIES, TOTAL

59,460
69,278
78,251
75,068

DURABLE

GOODS

31,877
38,480
41,627
36,172

59,514

76,478

INDUSTRIES

32,009
39,374
42,603
37,362

60,062
72,648
79,977
74,363

, TOTAL

32,255
40,863
42,404
35,973

61,514
72,792
82,260
78.600

33,570
40,808
44,325
38.983

61,645
73,798
85,493
78,753

33,586
41,712
46,959
39,428

63,291
74,634
85,529
80,237

34,870
42,289
47,201
39,730

61,433
73,459
87,226

33,154
41,011
47,418
(NA)

63,686
75,132
90,114

34,649
41,708
49,184
(NA)

65,063
73,571
86.959

35,735
40,701
46,214
(NA)

65,086
76,432
85,678

35,858
42,711
44,393
(NA)

66,538
78,165
83,805

36,274
43,039
42,705

68,409
76,510
76,704

37,826
41,245
38,092

TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT, TOTAL

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5,667
4,970

1972.

1975.

1974.
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TABLE B. --MANUFACTURERS'

SHIPMENTS AND NEW ORDERS, BY MARKET CATEGORIES AND MONTHS

Seasonall
(Millions

cd=c
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a =
IC C
=1U
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a.
IC~ii

y Adjusted
of dollars)

YEAR JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH AFR IL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER